Make Firefox the default

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pedro3005
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Joined: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:11 am

Make Firefox the default

Post by pedro3005 »

For some reason Firefox wasn't the default, when I clicked "Web Browser" nothing happened. I had to click Firefox Web Browser on the menu, and whenever a program tried to use a browser it wouldn't run. So I thought i'd copy everything on the .desktop of Firefox at /usr/share/applications to the .desktop of lxde-x-www-browser or something like that. It only made things worse :( Now Web Browser won't run and Firefox disappeared, I can only run it via command line. Any help? Thanks.
pedro3005
Posts: 2
Joined: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:11 am

Re: Make Firefox the default

Post by pedro3005 »

Solved by complete reinstallation (I was needing it anyway).
thezood
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Joined: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:03 pm

Re: Make Firefox the default

Post by thezood »

I had this problem too. There is another solution. Copied from http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDE:Questions# ... browser.3F.

As root:

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# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
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